Window-shade and curtain-pole support.



A. M. ERB.

WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN POLE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 1912.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADA MAY EBB, 0F CONNELLSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR 0F FIFTY ONE-HUNDREDTHS TO THOMAS C. DRUM, OF WEST NEWTON, PENNSYLVANIA, AND TWENTYONE-HUNDREDTHS TO FRANK B. POTTER, 0F CONNELLSVILLE, PENN- SYLVANIA.

WINDOW-SHADE AND CURTAIN-POLE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADA MAY EBB, a citizen of the United States,residing at Connellsville, in the county of Fayette and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Window-Shadeand Curtain-Pole Supports, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to window shade and curtain pole supports and hasfor an object to provide an extensible bracket which may be readilyconnected with a window frame and operatively supported thereon withoutthe provision of permanent fastening devices.

Another object of the invention is to provide a support which may beinitially ad justed upon the window and effectually held in such initialadjustment and then subse quently adjusted to effect its permanentanchorage to the window.

In the drawing forming a portion of this application, and in which likeletters of reference indicate similar parts in the several views;Figure1 is a perspective view of the support showing the application of thesame. Fig. 2 in a longitudinal section therethrough.

The support comprises sections 1 and 2 and as illustrated each sectionincludes an inner member 3 and an outer member 4, the latter beingslidably associated with the former at one side thereof and beingpreferably provided with longitudinal flanges or guides 5 to receive thesame.

The outer members 1 are provided at their outer extremities withintegral spurs 5 whose extremities are inturned whereby they may behorizontally driven into the sides of the window frame as shown inFig. 1. These members are also provided with integral forwardlyextending brackets 6 each having a depending portion 7 provided at 8with a recess or passage to receive the pintle of the shade roller andforwardly extending portions 10 that are constructed to provide upperconcavities 11 to receive the curtain pole.

The members 3 of the companion sections 1 and 2 of the device areslidable longitudinally against each other. The member Copies of thispatent may be obtained for 3 of the section 1 is provided with alongitudinal series of passages 12 which are adapted to interchangeablyreceive therethrough according to the longitudinal adjustment of thedevice which may be desired, a bolt 13. This bolt supports a lever 14having a cam or eccentric 15 which is mounted in a passage 16 in theinner extremity of the member 3 of the section 2. From this constructionit is evident that the bolt may be extended through any one of thepassages 12 as to the longitudinal approximate adjustment which may bedeemed necessary to an accurate association of the device with theWindow. After the device has been properly set or adjusted the eccentriclever is turned manually so as to cause the peripheral surface of theeccentric to engage operatively with the walls of the passage 16 with aresultant relative longitudinal adjustment of the companion sections 1and 2, causing the spurs at the outer ends of the sections toeffectually take to or engage with the window frame and to effect therequired anchorage of the device thereon.

I claim j A shade and curtain support comprising shade and curtainsupporting members adapted for longitudinal adjustments relatively, aninwardly bent spur at the outer end of each member, one of the membershav ing a passage therein adjacent the free inner end thereof, and aneccentric on the outer face of the other member adjacent the free endthereof, and adjustable longitudinally thereon and having a peripheraladjusting surface extending through the passage and adapted to engageagainst the walls thereof for permitting of a longitudinal adjustment ofthe companion members, means pivotally mounting the eccentric on thesaid other member, said means also securing the inner free ends of bothmembers together, the inner face of said eccentric snugly engaging theouter faceof the said other member.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADA MAY ERB. Witnesses:

ANNA TRUAX, IRENE DRUM.

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